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Legit History Documentaries

What are some legit (i.e. actual good history and no extra drama added for effect) documentaries? Anything up till the 20th century (otherwise it will be filled with WWI and WWII stuff) that you think is good, please post ITT.

When I was in, another soldier and I stopped a senior NCO who was raping an enlisted female.

She was afraid to even try and press charges, so we told her we'd back her up.

Before the first hearing, I met with officers involved in the matter. She'd retracted her story, and the senior NCO who was raping her got her promoted and transferred to another unit. And the other soldier who'd help me stop the rape also retracted his story, got a promotion and got transferred.

The officers told me I'd "cause trouble for myself" if I chose to pursue the matter. I did, and after it headed nowhere I found myself discharged.

>>5680214went halfway the article you linked and dismissed it halfway as typical pseud scholar masterbationfor real world check the traditional albanian blood feuds raging for generations even after the original conflict is semi-legendary or completeky forgotten vs christian-moral resolution in rwanda (perpetrators serving 15-20y sentences, then begging the remaining members of family for forgiveness, builds the victim a new house, continues to serve as much as he can, while living right next to former victim as a everyday neighbour. Most of victims reporting voluntary forgiveness.phoneposting, so idea articulation is shit

>>5676436For starters, that's not how it worked at all. Hammurabi's code was extremely class stratified, and generally the eye for an eye only applied to crimes between social equals. Someone of higher rank/wealth/status committing a crime against someone lower ranked was never expected to pay full eye for an eye, and someone who was lower striking at their betters was sentenced disproportionately.

I don't know about you, but equality before the law is pretty important to most people, and Hammurabi explicitly rejected such a system.

>>5680391>duh, not sure if you've heard but going to war with the US didn't work out so well.

Well yeah no shit, but Japan's infamous nationalism and zealotry may have resulted in feelings of strong resentment afterwards. That's why I'm asking. Some nations may have doubled down on their 'righteous cause' after an event like that.

> But Japan is a nation that would probably never betray the US out of self interest

Let's say in the next century or so, the Japanese amend their constitution, build nuclear weapons, and decide they want to challenge their neighbors for regional supremacy. Obvious targets are obvious, but do you think they would ever challenge American presence in the pacific or did they truly learn their lesson/let bygones be bygones?

>>5680395>Can you give me more information on this?Western style government, fashion, concept of marriage. I've heard that Buddhist priests were pressured into marriage along Protestant priest lines, but I think that happened earlier and for a different reason.

In all aspects but religion and facial appearance Japan was a western nation. The Koreans in the 1870s said as much, saying Japan was no longer Asian.

> I always correlated their industrialization and modernization to the Portuguese showing up.Portuguese showed up in the mid 1500s, Japan isolated itself from the world in 1610s, and didn't open up again until the 1850s. During this time only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan, and only on the island of Deijima. The Portuguese were banned from Japan because of their missionary activities. The Catholic church in Japan was basically a Portuguese colonial mission. And the Japanese had heard from the Spanish what that the Portuguese first convert people, when ask people to give the church land, the use the land as a landing base for invasion, similar to what happened in parts of Africa.

tldr; no its very different and about 300 years apart.

>What gave rise to this Ero-guro? Any cultural forces or influences at play, or is this just a case of artists pushing boundaries as you say?Mass media, a real lack of government censorship (which would change in the 30s as the military took power), it could be seen as apart of the global 1920s culture of excess, 1900s spiritualism, or cultural movements in Germany at the same time.

>>5680395It doesn't take a genius to see that it had heavy cultural ramifications, a huge percentage of the manga industry is hinged on making social commentary about said changes. My suggestion is that you need to read Japanese literature to really see this sort of thing, rather than ask it be spoonfed to you. The history of a culture is in its arts, that's why conquerors destroy arts.